IronTy

I'm pretty sure I know what it's going to be telling us.

I don't know why I allowed myself to have any hope for this storm. Like I haven't learned this lesson like 45 times over the years. Looking at the 10-day forecast on my WeatherBug app is more accurate than watching the models ..

That's ones a heartbreak down here.

12Z for the win baby!

Well that is a nice morning surprise.to start out the New Year. Good to see the R/S line shifting SE with each run as of late. Still need to see another couple shifts for MBY but I might have to put the snow blade.on the muck truck today just to be ready.

Same here, 2016 was kinda meh, at least as much as a 12" storm can be meh. Dec 2009 ftw in my 20yrs in SoMD. Of course LES snow in Michigan during my childhood was on another level...but that's not the same.

Barcelona's boundary? Is that near Short Pump?

Man I feel WB is running their models on an old Pentium chip, these panels take forever.

Udderly the most severe looking period I've seen on the models in decades.

JB has been lashing out at model runs recently which is always a bad sign. And this morning in a post he laid the groundwork for his forecast fail. "Just be glad you got to live through an epic period for snow storms". This might actually be a good contrarian signal for us.

Last night it was the bug zapper...this morning I noticed one of my hanging petunias is still holding on. I'm rooting for it.

I'm on my back patio and the bug zapper light is on and it legit just zapped a bug two days before January.

Chalk it up to another thing the Internet has ruined

Sun angle already increasing. Only a matter of time.

Unless things turn around I think it's the motto for this winter. The Udder Disaster Winter

Lol that sums it up, time for a glass of milk.

We need a larger continent.

There's hope for you yet!

Anecdotal.... We have started the process to build our cabin on Meadow Mountain next to DCL. We own the land already so it'll be build only. Planning on a relatively modest A-frame at this point. So far the process has been relatively painless. We have the concept and the architect has started work on construction drawings. We are deciding between two builders at this point. Goal is to begin construction in March and be completed by the holidays next year. So far all guidance is that this is doable. I'll build deadline penalties into the builder contract to keep them motivated, and we are doing everything with cash already on hand so maybe that helps too. So far we're being quoted around $220/sqft. That's build only - like I said we already own the land. Big variable will be cost to get electric from the nearest pole to the POE.

Now we know where JB is getting his "coldest since the pleistocene" call from.

Triggered!!!! This is a deb safe space, be gone with your treachery and polyanna ways!

We need to hope for a THC shutdown. Or maybe Greenland just all melts one summer and throws us into an ice age. Or maybe a supervolcano or asteroid hit. Those could turn things in our favor on a dime .

JB just posted about how the upcoming period has the most severe cold potential of any period he's seen in years. Finally some good news that you can take to the bank, guaranteed.

Same here in Calvert. It's dumping.

I've been saying this for years but I might as well be howling at the moon. The warming ocean WILL help produce monster snowstorms...up until a point. And then it'll be just too warm to snow at all and we'll only end up as rain. We had a blowout season in 09-10 and the NE had one five years later like I expected. And it's generally sucked since then. Now we're in the rain-only phase. Might as well embrace it and welcome the arrival of anoles and geckos followed by larger and ever more dangerous reptiles as the years go by.